Re: r trim of characters other than space

am 09.02.2006, um 11:54:43 +0530 mailte surabhi.ahuja folgendes:
> Hi
> hi i have varchar type fiels in a table.
>
> i want to make the following check,
>
> if it is having carets in the end, then those carets be removed.
>
> so if i get a string like abc def^^^^
>
> i should be able to get abc def

Which version? I have 8.1 and can use regexp_replace for this:

test=# select 'abc def^^^^';
?column?
-------------
abc def^^^^
(1 row)

test=# select regexp_replace('abc def^^^^','[\\^]*$','');
regexp_replace
----------------
abc def
(1 row)

HTH, Andreas
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